@ Thx4 Fish: “This is the personality flaw of so many on the right: We don’t identify the good guys by comparing them to the bad guys. We identify the good guys by their behavior apart from any enemy. The good guys are honorable in their own right, they are not simply less barbaric than their enemies.”

Correct, Fish

What you just described was a lot of my fellow former service members, “quiet professionals.”

The reason this personality flaw affects so many on the right is simple: for all their war cheerleading and admonitions to “Support The Troops” (except when it comes to paying them), the vast majority — like Kneel — are a bunch of chickenhawks who don’t have the stones to get into uniform themselves, so cinematic warfighting is the closest they’ll ever come to combat . . .

Kurtz moved on to make a “quick note” about a hard-hitting Boston Globe investigation into Jeb Bush’s “troubled” and “tumultuous” (their words, not Kurtz’s, of course) years at Andover. Kurtz praised Bush for having “very shrewdly, in my view, cooperated with the piece” and acknowledged that he had smoked pot and hash as a teen, and denied a report on bullying, “rather than sort of letting this develop and get the story done with early,” Kurtz said.

Compare that to the talk about Palin and I think we can conclude that Palin has lost Fox News.

Better yet . . . compare that to the talk about President Obama and I think we can conclude Fox seems to have differing standards on past drug use by politicians.

Kurtz is “praising” Bush for “getting in front” of a story that could have implications on a possible presidential run . . . yet, back in 2007, the Fox crew blasted the then-candidate Obama about revelations of his drug and alcohol use in school — revelations Obama HIMSELF made in his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father”, published two years before: